How to Use water supply in a Sentence

water supply

noun

• The pipe was cracked, severing the water supply and flooding the first floor of the station.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Alongside the water pressure, check the flow rate of the water supply.
  — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2024
• The flow rate of a soaker hose depends on the length and inner diameter of the hose, the pressure of the water supply, and the rate of the faucet.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
• If leaks are found, shut off the water supply until the leaks are repaired.
  — al, 26 Dec. 2022
• Now health officials fear for the state of the water supply, among many other things.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
• The guideline is used to forecast the state’s water supply in the drier summer months.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• For decades, many of the households in Rio Verde Foothills had their water hauled in from Scottsdale’s water supply.
  — Daniel Rothberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• What does Mesa need to do to manage the city’s water supply in the ongoing drought that could lead to steeper cuts?
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
• Talk of birth-order dynamics seems to be in the water supply these days.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 10 June 2024
• The efforts to secure new water supplies could be a race against climate change.
  — Peter Eavis Nathalia Angarita, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Disconnect the water supply to the tank using a set of channel locks.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023
• In a cooler era, readings like theirs would paint a clear picture of the summer water supply to come.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• The City of Foley said the overflows did not affect any public water supplies.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 4 Sep. 2023
• Then, shut off the water supply valves by turning them clockwise.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
• Knowing just how much snow will melt and feed the water supply helps growers adjust.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• In the heart of California, at the place where two great rivers converge beneath the Tule fog, lies the linchpin of one of the largest water supply systems in the world.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Each faucet is solid brass forged and comes with a push pop-up drain stopper, overflow, valve, and water supply line.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2023
• Many said the housing units are cramped and squalid, with cockroaches scuttling across the floor and a briny water supply that caused rashes.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Rather than dry deserts, the land that makes up present-day Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya was then densely wooded with rain forests and ample water supply.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
• The need for conservation and water supply were also added to the reasons for the dam, along with flood control.
  — Sheila Yount, arkansasonline.com, 21 July 2024
• For Becker, the project’s story starts back in 2002, when a drought laid bare the inadequacy of the city’s water supply.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
• In most years, snowmelt is responsible for about 80% of the river’s water supply, Lukas said.
  — Elise Hammond, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
• Both droughts and floods pose threats to the country’s water supply, in some areas combining to compound risks.
  — Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2022
• No one is surprised that the squabbling has become more intense as the water supply out West has dwindled.
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2024
• Jackson has two water-treatment plants, and the larger one is near a reservoir that provides most of the city’s water supply.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus and Michael Goldberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2022
• The tank that holds the family’s water supply needed to be refilled every three days.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• Knowing how clean your water supply is can take some doing.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• The future of our water supply and the well-being of our communities depends on it.
  — Mack Bernard, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2024
• Nolan Stevens dips his hand into the Little Colorado River, the water supply that sustains his four-acre corn farm.
  — Photographs & Text By Elliot Ross For Time, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
• There is forever disagreement on when to pump water supplies based on the best available science.
  — Robin Epley, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024